Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1913 — MILITIA LOST FAST GAME OF BASKETBALL [ARTICLE]

MILITIA LOST FAST GAME OF BASKETBALL

Bethany Reformed Church of Chicago Had Six-Footers That the Locals Almost Conquered. -- The Chicago basketball team advertised as the Calumets proved to be the strong team from the Bethany Reformed church of the Chicago school league. They were a fine lot of big fellows, as clean and ’fair as any team that ever played on the floor. They were given a great tussel by the soldiers and would have been beaten had it not been for an injury to Clark, one of the Rensselaer forwards, near the end of the game. At the time Clark was taken out the score stood 29 to 27 in favor of the locals, but the visitors got busy and made three fine field baskets and won the game with a final score of 33 to 29. In the evening the Monticello high school played the Rensselaer high school at the gymnasium in the school basement. The visitors had the locals outsized and were better at most points in the game, but the game youngsters put up a vigorous scrap and the final score was 15 to 6. Rensselaer got only one field basket, which “Tad" Brusnahan got in a clever shot beneath the arms of a big guard. Conn, at forward, for the visitors, a star game, getting three baskets from long throws at difficult angles.